Who has used Slick50?

[Islandvic]

Who here has used Slick 50, before knowing it was a sham?


I have used Slick 50 once.

It was Fall 2001.

It was on sale some where for under $10.

My '96 Crown Vic probably had 90k miles at the time.

In goes the Slick 50.

It's white/yellow looking. Does'nt even look like a lubricant.

In goes 4 quarts of Valvoline 5-30 All-Climate and Fram PH2 filter.

I drive 3000 miles until my next OCI, and nothing particularly exciting happens. My wallet is $6 lighter now.

The Vic still run strong to this day as my secondary vehicle.

I am smarter now about automotive lubricants, even smarter after I found BITOG.

 

[Shannow]

Many many years ago (when I was 18), our Renault 16 with 240,000km was starting to consume oil at a prodigeous rate (1 litre of GTX 20W-50 per 5,000km oil change).

We were due to go on a long trip, and Mum wanted everything in ship shape.

So we ordered some PMT (seriously, Permanent Motor Treatment) teflon at $36. Added it at a new oil change and drove off. The stuff was pink, and came in a 250ml tin can like MEK.

Oil consumption virtually stopped, recurring at 300km. Can't recall much else about it.

Tried Slick 50 one time in a V-8 that was noisy, and burning about the same...nothing.

 

[mechtech]

I've used it in a number of vehicles [years ago].
At minimum, the idle always went up. Butt dyno often showed an increase in power. When parking on inclines in gear, the Slick 50 treatment caused the car to roll when they didn't before, with the engine turning over from less friction. These were my daily parking spots, and I know there was a difference.
I can't recommend it, because on paper Slick 50 doesn't make sense.
But, there were definite results.

 

[Dr. T]

I used it in my college beater `88 2.3L Mustang back in 1993. Not sure if it made a difference. Ran strong from 23k-145k km when I traded it in...

 

[newtoncd8]

305,000 miles on our 1988 Camry ... Slick50 was used about every 50,000 miles until 225,000 miles.

Still running great to this day.

 

[Evil Ron]

I used Slick 50 in my 1986 Mazda B2000 pickup one time. I noticed that the engine seemed to rev a lot easier. It was a manual trans. and the engine would rev higher in each gear without getting "buzzy" in the higher RPMs. This stopped after I changed the oil.

 

[JohnnyLock]

I too used it -- but hey I was 18 and didn't know any better -- used it in an '84 Mercury Lynx(Escort) and it didn't do anything that I could tell. I paid a lot more than $6 bucks though if I remember.

 

[wavinwayne]

I never used it. I always felt like it was too expensive.

 

[Gary Allan]

I used Slick50® and Duralube® ...and Prolong®. Never spent the money for Z-max. I bought Prolong and did unscientific testing with a drill press at work with my pals. I don't think I ever added it to any engine.

We all want magic additives.

 

[robbobster]

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Originally posted by mechtech:
When parking on inclines in gear, the Slick 50 treatment caused the car to roll when they didn't before, with the engine turning over from less friction.

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If you have and automatic that's just your parking prawl engaging. There's always a little slack in it. It's not your engine turning.

 

[2003TRD]

I used it in a 98 tacoma, only had it for 36K miles and then traded it in. Never had a problem. Never noticed anything, I bought it when they were advertising a 250K mile warranty with it (if you used it every 50K miles)

 

[obbop]

Glub glub glub into the 1975 Honda Civiv CVCC went the Slick 50 goop.

Vrooom vroom vroom went the engine as I progressed up and down the 5 available forward gears. Even went into reverse when required.

As the years crept by I added the goop a couple more times. Glub glub.

Didn't really notice any difference.

Valve went bad past the 100,000 mile mark and didn't feel like putting any money ('dinero' to our recent millions of entrants) into the itty bitty economic conveyance. Traded it for a groovy 1069 Dodge Dart with a slant-6.

Sniff.

I knew that 6 banger needed work and was ready to invest to bring it up to snuff.... to function as well as the body was purdy'. A fine California car that looked nearly new.

But, medical bills arose and since the job offered no insurance, well..... bye bye Dart.

Sniff.

Such a fine automobubble. Never had a chance to Slick-50 it.

Now that I am enlightened via the Webaroo I wouldn't do the glub glub glub routine with any engine.

Guess I'm a Slick-50-free-zone.

 

[wavinwayne]

Surely there's somebody on BITOG with an old beater that they would be willing to use as a Slick 50 "test machine". Maybe with some before & after engine & filter pics..........

I just can't imagine that this stuff is all that bad.

 

[XS650]

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Originally posted by wavinwayne:


I just can't imagine that this stuff is all that bad.

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There's no need to Imagine it, just Google "slick 50" scam

 

[wavinwayne]

I know, I know........

 

[Patman]

I used it for the first time back in 1987, it cost me something like $50! (I had to mail order it, and it came in a metal can!)

I tried it again in a different car a few years after that, and I even fell for the Duralube scam in 1994. I have not used anything like that since then though.

 

[kcryan]

I used it in my I30 before i knew of you fellows, now the car gets lc religously to clean all the crap it left in there out

 

[mechtech]

cant post

 

[kcryan]

i admit to using Z-max to in the catera(more than once), but its got 85k on it and for those cars thats pretty good

 

[crashz]

I used it in my 83 GMc 6.2L diesel. Obviously, even if there were some results to be found, they were masked buy that rattle trap of a motor.

I used Duralube a few years later on my 97 F150. Seemed like it let the engine rev a little more easily, but this could be all in my head. The proof of "something" happening is that my temp guage would read much lower for as long as I owned the vehicle. It was reading half way between the L and H (D@mn Ford gauages!) and immediately after would only creep right above L.
Thinking I had a cooling problem, I had the water pump replaced, thermostat replaced and a pressure test done all at the dealer under warranty. No problems for the next three years, but the temp guage would never reach the half way point again.